Engadget pictures of the Treo 650
Engadget has some pictures and more details about palmOne's Treo 650. Bluetooth, 1.3 megapixel camera, video recording, and a high resolution screen. I want one....
August 2004 archives
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Feedster partners with The Washington Post for best blogs awards
Feedster has partnered with The Washington Post to help readers nominate weblogs for the Best Blogs awards. "Categories include Best Rant, Democratic Party Coverage, Republican Party Coverage, Campaign Dirt, Inside the Beltway, Outside the Beltway, International, Class Clown, Most Original and Most Likely to Last beyond Election Day."...
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Wall Street Journal on Republican convention webloggers
The Wall Street Journal profiles the 15 official webloggers attending next week's Republican national convention. "Asked what they learned from Boston, some of the New York bloggers characterized the Boston coverage as self-absorbed and overly preoccupied with celebrity sightings. The Republican bloggers said they'd stay more focused on the issues and the convention itself -- a chance they'll get next week."...
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Chicago Sun Times on TypePad
Andy Innatko of the Chicago Sun Times reviewed Six Apart's TypePad offering yesterday. The article seems to be a bit too slanted in Six Apart's favor. The article makes many mentions of TypePad as a place for real publishing, away from the noise of LiveJournal or Blogger. A Blogger or LiveJournal blog limits you to basic, straightforward blogging and, worse, every Blogger or LiveJournal blog looks more or less alike. Blogger and TypePad both allow template selection. Both services allow you to select from a template library. Both allow for custom styles. Disseminating news and fostering discussion about the potential...
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Olympic medal tally by population
Australian Bureau of Statistics released a chart showing Athens 2004 Olympic medals taking into account a country's population. Bahamas is #1 on the list with a total population of 317,000 and one gold medal. Even though the U.S. leads the total medal count with 25 gold medals it places 29th in per-capita medals....
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Neil Turner on Movable Type and WordPress
Neil Turner has a good post about his evaluation of Movable Type and WordPress. Matt Mullenweg (lead developer of WordPress) of addresses some of the points brought up by Neil in the comments section of the post. Neil Turner is one of the authors of the upcoming Hacking Movable Type book....
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Comment spam outpacing e-mail spam
This week my comment spam has outpaced my e-mail spam. The comment spammers use varied IP addresses, so an IP block does no good. MT-Blacklist is not working for me at the moment but hopefully I will have it installed when the final bits ship with Movable Type 3.1 next week. MT-Blacklist blocks comments based on keywords and link usage, not just IP block. How bad is the problem? Only 7.7% of the comments submitted to my site are legitimate comments. I could restrict to only TypeKey comments, but even a Six Apart employee does not use TypeKey when leaving...
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Technorati receives new funding
Om Malik reports that Technorati either has or is about to close its first round of funding. $6.5 million at a company valuation of around $12 million. (via Anil Dash)...
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Mark Cuban on future content distribution
Mark Cuban talks at length about replacing the world of DVDs with portable hard drives. He tried a few methods and thinks out loud about how hard drives could work as a distribution scheme....
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Share your feed unsubscribes idea
I add and delete RSS and Atom feeds from my news aggregators every week. I publish my OPML file on occasion and services such as Dave Winer's Share Your OPML index the file. Anyone could run a diff of the OPML and modified date and track my subscribes and unsubscribes. What's lost in the data is why I unsubscribed. I think this unsubscribe data would be valuable to publishers, especially as syndication becomes more corporate. Maybe someone unsubscribes to my feed because they do not like my posts about soccer. I could create a feed that includes or excludes certain...
